What is Workbench HD?

All-New Workbench HD Software Featuring an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, Workbench HD provides full control over scores of important instrument characteristics such as string pitch, string volume, pickup position and much more.

What is Variax input?

Variax guitars have a Variax Digital Interface (VDI) port that connects them via an Ethernet cable to compatible hardware like the Line 6 POD amp modelers, or through the Workbench interface via USB to a computer. Users can create customized models and tunings and then save them back to the guitar.

How do I edit variax?

Launch Workbench HD with your Variax connected; your guitar’s models will populate the Model List automatically. Scoll the Model List and select a preset you’d like to edit, or one you’d like to use as the basis for a new preset; double-click its name to load it into the Edit Window.

How does a Variax guitar work?

The bridge of a Variax electric guitar has an individual piezoelectric pickup for each string. The instrument’s electronics converts each of these six signals to a digital signal, and digitally processes each to emulate the selected sound.

What is a modeling guitar?

A modeling amp is a guitar amplifier with an onboard array of effects and features typically designed to emulate other well-known guitar amps, effects, speaker cabinets, and guitarist tones.

What is Variax guitar?

Variax is the name of a line of guitars developed and marketed by Line 6. They differ from typical electric and acoustic guitars in that internal electronics process the sound from individual strings to model (replicate) the sound of specific guitars and other instruments.

What happened to variax?

Variax electric guitars They discontinued the 500 about a year later. It was manufactured in Korea. The “budget” model 300 came out in 2005, was in limited supply by 2007 and was finally discontinued in early 2009.